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my year of reading dangerously a challenge skip to main skip to sidebar my year of reading dangerously a challenge wednesday december 10 2008 my year of reading dangerously 2009 welcome to the 2009 edition of the my year of reading dangerously challenge we had a great time in 2008 and i hope many of you will join us for the next installment we re making the challenge even easier this year i know we didn t think it was possible either instead of hosting a list of dangerous reads this year is all about you your job read 12 books you deem dangerous between january 1st and december 31st 2009 they may be banned or challenged books new to you genres books that seem to inhabit a permanent space on your stacks or authors you re afraid of the possibilities are endless if it s dangerous to you it s challenge worthy to us instead of breaking the year down into monthly mr linky s we ll be hosting one ongoing linky this year we ll post updates and notices to participants in sticky posts at the top of the blog but your reading will be the centerpiece of this site whenever you finish a dangerous book come leave the link to your review so other participants can ogle your accomplishments in the meantime if you re interested in joining us leave a comment on this post so we can start building a list of participants on our sidebar and while you re here take a gander at our recommended list for 2009 these are books we love or want to read for ourselves recommended 2009 the awakening by kate chopin feminist a vindication of the rights of women by mary wollstoncraft feminist a passage to india by em forester classic tess of the d urbervilles by thomas hardy classic the handmaid s tale by margaret atwood contemporary literary a clockwork orange by anthony burgess dystopia slaughterhouse five by kurt vonnegut sci fi among other things their eyes were watching god by zora neale hurston classic african american on the blue shore of silence by pablo neruda poetry gone with the wind by margaret mitchell southern lit persepolis i and ii by marjane satrapi graphic novel memoir night dawn and day by elie wiesel holocaust inferno by dante classic poetry beasts by joyce carol oates contemporary novella my new york diary by julie doucet graphic novel man in the dark by paul auster contemporary literary fiction hotel world by ali smith contemporary stream of consciousness lysistrata by aristophanes classic greek american born chinese by gene luen yang graphic novel race and ethnicity living dead girl by elizabeth scott young adult the end of america by naomi wolf politics the waste land by t s eliot poetry o pioneers by willa cather classic incidents in the life of a slave girl by harriet jacobs classic slavery the heart is a lonely hunter by carson mccullers classic contact by carl sagan contemporary sci fi you can link to your blog post about the challenge here posted by estella at 9 31 am 70 comments labels 2009 participant list sign up tuesday december 2 2008 november and december 2008 did you read any dangerous short stories in november how about the grapes of wrath for december share a link to your review in the comments section watch for more information on the year of reading dangerously 2009 coming soon posted by estella at 2 13 pm 4 comments labels december 2008 november 2008 thursday october 2 2008 september and october use this space to post links to your september and october books the secret lives of people in love and the human stain if you d like you can also post general discussion in the comment section thanks for playing these months posted by estella at 11 10 pm 3 comments labels october 2008 september 2008 monday august 11 2008 maus i and ii proper discussion questions for august s books maus i and ii will begin to appear below this post around august 20th feel free to link your reviews via mr linky below or link to any other dangerous titles you review in august have fun feel free to discuss general points of maus i and ii the comments section of this post post questions you re interested in getting opinions on or just talk amongst yourselves posted by estella at 11 39 am 5 comments labels august 2008 maus wednesday july 2 2008 the chocolate war by robert cormier proper discussion questions for july s book the chocolate war will begin to appear below this post around july 20th feel free to link your reviews via mr linky below or link to any other dangerous titles you review in july have fun feel free to discuss general points of the chocolate war in the comments section of this post post questions you re interested in getting opinions on or just talk amongst yourselves posted by estella at 10 31 am 5 comments labels july 2008 thursday june 12 2008 lolita by vladimir nabokov proper discussion questions for june s book lolita will begin to appear below this post around june 20th feel free to link your reviews via mr linky below or link to any other dangerous titles you review in may have fun feel free to discuss general points of lolita in the comments section of this post post questions you re interested in getting opinions on or just talk amongst yourselves posted by estella at 3 39 pm 6 comments labels june 2008 lolita friday may 9 2008 may other voices other rooms proper discussion questions for may s book other voices other rooms will begin to appear below this post around may 20th feel free to link your reviews via mr linky below or link to any other dangerous titles you review in may have fun feel free to discuss general points of other voices other rooms in the comments section of this post post questions you re interested in getting opinions on or just talk amongst yourselves posted by estella at 8 14 am 5 comments labels may 2008 other voices other rooms truman capote wednesday april 30 2008 april transformations by anne sexton proper discussion questions for april s book transformations will begin to appear below this post soon feel free to link your reviews via mr linky below or link to any other dangerous titles you review in april have fun feel free to discuss general points of tranformations in the comments section of this post post questions you re interested in getting opinions on or just talk amongst yourselves posted by estella at 12 44 pm 10 comments labels april 2008 transformations tuesday april 15 2008 discussion 1 the gold key and snow white and the seven dwarfs 1 does anyone remember and this is partially a selfish question if the gold key corresponds to a particular grimm fairy tale or if she s purely using this as a way to set up the speaker etc i think i found a story titled the gold key once but i don t have my complete grimm with me in north carolina 2 how would you describe the tone sexton establishes from the beginning of this collection is it pretty consistent throughout or do you see subtle changes 3 talk about some of the imagery sexton uses in snow white and the seven dwarfs particularly what did you think of lines like cheeks as fragile as cigarette papers and rolling her china blue doll eyes open and shut 4 why do you think she chose to retell snow white what does this poem accomplish as a literary work do you find it particularly innovative as far as retellings go posted by estella at 1 02 pm 2 comments labels anne sexton april 2008 transformations anne sexton biography click here to read about anne sexton s life posted by estella at 12 57 pm no comments labels anne sexton april 2008 transformations friday april 4 2008 march winner the winner of a book lover s magnetic poetry collection bookplates and a bookmark cathy from butterflies used to be caterpillars congratulations and thank you for discussing cat s eye with us posted by estella at 9 01 am 1 comment labels march 2008 prizes monday march 31 2008 march cat s eye by margaret atwood proper discussion questions for march s book cat s eye will begin to appear below this post soon feel free to link your reviews via mr linky below or link to any other dangerous titles you review in march have fun feel free to discuss general points of cat s eye in the comments section of this post post questions you re interested in getting opinions on or just talk amongst yourselves posted by estella at 2 42 pm 14 comments labels cat s eye march 2008 wednesday march 26 2008 cat s eye discussion questions round 2 4 discuss the impact of the type of parenting received by elaine cordelia and their third friend grace at one point elaine s mother tells her that she does not have to be with the girls that are tormenting her is her mother in any way responsible for what happened to elaine 5 early in the novel elaine is warned by her first new friend carol not to go down into the ravine there might be men there discuss the significance of this warning taking into account the later incident between the girls at the ravine what does this say about our ability to apprehend danger if you re read other atwood novels in what way does she explore the nature of evil and its relationship to gender 6 why do you think elaine became an artist what is the significance that she did so do artists use life experiences in ways nonartists do not posted by estella at 11 17 am 3 comments labels cat s eye discussion questions march 2008 thursday march 20 2008 cat s eye first round of questions 1 what does margaret atwood s novel cat s eye say about the nature of childhood and the development of adolescent friendships is there a gender influenced difference in cruelty between boys as opposed to cruelty as expressed by girls 2 in the opening line of the novel the narrator artist elaine risley who returns to the city of her birth for a retrospective of her painting observes time is not a line but a dimension like the dimensions of space if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backward in time and exist in two places at once how do you interpret this statement 3 elaine is haunted by cordelia her best friend and the tormentor of her childhood all predators must have a motive what benefit did cordelia receive out of tormenting elaine what weakness in elaine made her particularly vulnerable to cordelia why did she continue to play such importance in elaine s adult life posted by estella at 11 26 am 8 comments labels cat s eye discussion questions march 2008 tuesday march 4 2008 february prizes so sorry i m late posting this month s prizes for those of you who read my blog you know that i m teaching college and mid term was a killer this time around without further ado the prizes for february are slavery is terrible for men but it is far more terrible for women harriet jacobs wrote in 1861 at that time she was an escaped slave living in the north but the fugitive slave law of 1850 meant that she could not longer consider being in the northern states a guarantee of freedom or safety her book is an eloquent recital of the suffering that is slavery families broken apart promises of freedom made but never kept whippings beatings and burnings masters selling their own children all are recounted with precise detail and a blazing indignation a 101 year old retired laborer who enrolled in a literacy class near his dallas tex home at the age of 98 george dawson now reads and writes on a third grade level from dawson s eloquent words co writer glaubman a seattle elementary school teacher has fashioned two engrossing stories first is the inspiring saga of how someone who was the grandson of a slave managed to navigate the brutally segregated small texas town of marshall where dawson was born without losing his integrity or enjoyment of life that s right two great books one of my favorites and one of heather s going out to two lucky year of reading dangerously participants and the winners are incidents lisa life is so good kim l ladies if you would please send your contact info to estellabooks at gmail dot com if you ve already read the book you were chosen for just let me know and i d be happy to 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